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Author : Dempsey Jerome Travis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book "Harold," the Peoples Mayor written by Dempsey Jerome Travis and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dempsey Travis
Publisher : Agate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 157284812X
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (728 download)
Download or read book Harold, the People’s Mayor written by Dempsey Travis and published by Agate Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-12 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Harold Washington was one of the most spellbinding and irresistible characters I have encountered in my 40 years in journalism and politics. Part philosopher, part street brawler and always entertaining, Harold was as big and ebullient as the town he came to lead.” —David Axelrod, former senior advisor to President Barack Obama Harold, the People's Mayor is the authorized biography of Chicago's first black mayor, written by the late civil rights activist and prolific author Dempsey Travis, a man whose personal friendship with Washington spanned more than 50 years. Travis drew on recollections, notes, and several hundred hours' worth of interviews with Washington and his close associates in order to craft a portrait of Washington that spans his childhood, military years, political career, and death. Travis gained deep insights into Washington during the years he knew him, both as a boy and a man, and those combined with his encyclopedic knowledge of Chicago politics have resulted in an essential work of political biography and Chicago history. Published to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Washington's untimely passing, this is a firsthand personal account of the life and career of one of the country's most significant big-city mayors and influential African American politicians, a man who former President Barack Obama credits as an inspiration. Moving, comprehensive, and well-researched, Harold, the People's Mayor is required reading for anyone interested in 20th-century big-city politics and in this remarkable figure and how he lived, worked, and rose to transform the political landscape of Chicago.
Author : Naurice Roberts
Publisher : Children's Press(CT)
ISBN 13 : 9780516036571
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (365 download)
Download or read book Harold Washington written by Naurice Roberts and published by Children's Press(CT). This book was released on 1988 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follows the life and career of Chicago's first black mayor, assessing his impact as lawyer, state representative, state senator, mayor, and national leader.
Author : David Masciotra
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 183860426X
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (386 download)
Download or read book I Am Somebody written by David Masciotra and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are few figures and leaders of recent American history of greater social and political consequence than Jesse Jackson, and few more relevant for America's current political climate. In the 1960s, Jackson served as a close aide to Dr. Martin Luther King, meeting him on the notorious march to legitimate the American democratic system in Selma. He was there on the day of King's assassination, and continued his political legacy, inspiring a generation of black and Latino politicians and activists, founding the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, and helping to make the Democratic Party more multicultural and progressive with his historic runs for the presidency in the 1980s. In I Am Somebody, David Masciotra argues that Jackson's legacy must be rehabilitated in the history of American politics. Masciotra has had personal access to Jackson for several years, conducting over 100 interviews with the man himself, as well as interviews with a wide variety of elected officials and activists who Jackson has inspired and influenced. It also takes readers inside Jackson's negotiations for the release of hostages and political prisoners in Cuba, Iraq, and several other countries. As Democratic politics sees a return to radicalism and the rise of a new generation of committed advocates of racial and economic justice, I Am Somebody: Why Jesse Jackson Matters is a critical book for understanding where America in the 21st Century has come from and where it is going. Featuring a foreword by Michael Eric Dyson.
Author : Harold Washington
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Climbing a Great Mountain written by Harold Washington and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roger Biles
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252050525
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Mayor Harold Washington written by Roger Biles and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2018-05-10 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raised in a political family on Chicago's South Side, Harold Washington made history as the city's first African American mayor. His 1983 electoral triumph, fueled by overwhelming black support, represented victory over the Chicago Machine and business as usual. Yet the racially charged campaign heralded an era of bitter political divisiveness that obstructed his efforts to change city government. Roger Biles's sweeping biography provides a definitive account of Washington and his journey from the state legislature to the mayoralty. Once in City Hall, Washington confronted the back room deals, aldermanic thuggery, open corruption, and palm greasing that fueled the city's autocratic political regime. His alternative: a vision of fairness, transparency, neighborhood empowerment, and balanced economic growth at one with his emergence as a dynamic champion for African American uplift and a crusader for progressive causes. Biles charts the countless infamies of the Council Wars era and Washington's own growth through his winning of a second term—a promise of lasting reform left unfulfilled when the mayor died in 1987. Original and authoritative, Mayor Harold Washington redefines a pivotal era in Chicago's modern history.
Author : Salim Muwakkil
Publisher : Chicago Lives
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Harold! written by Salim Muwakkil and published by Chicago Lives. This book was released on 2007 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handsome book captures in words and pictures the powerful emotions that have circled around Chicagos popular mayor, Harold Washington, and gives readers a glimpse of a man who has won over an entire city.
Author : Alton Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Harold Washington written by Alton Miller and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Timothy Stewart-Winter
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812247914
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Queer Clout written by Timothy Stewart-Winter and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-02-16 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queer Clout weaves together activism and electoral politics to trace the gay movement's path since the 1950s in Chicago. Stewart-Winter stresses gay people's and African Americans' shared focus on police harassment, highlighting how black political leaders enabled white gays and lesbians to join an emerging liberal coalition in city hall.
Author : Gary Rivlin
Publisher : Urban Life, Landscape and Poli
ISBN 13 : 9781439904916
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Fire on the Prairie written by Gary Rivlin and published by Urban Life, Landscape and Poli. This book was released on 2013 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revised edition of the classic story of race and power, set in Chicago during the 1980s, when this most political of cities elected its first black mayor
Author : Gwendolyn Brooks
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Mayor Harold Washington and Chicago, the I will city written by Gwendolyn Brooks and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Larry Bennett
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226042952
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)
Download or read book The Third City written by Larry Bennett and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our traditional image of Chicago—as a gritty metropolis carved into ethnically defined enclaves where the game of machine politics overshadows its ends—is such a powerful shaper of the city’s identity that many of its closest observers fail to notice that a new Chicago has emerged over the past two decades. Larry Bennett here tackles some of our more commonly held ideas about the Windy City—inherited from such icons as Theodore Dreiser, Carl Sandburg, Daniel Burnham, Robert Park, Sara Paretsky, and Mike Royko—with the goal of better understanding Chicago as it is now: the third city. Bennett calls contemporary Chicago the third city to distinguish it from its two predecessors: the first city, a sprawling industrial center whose historical arc ran from the Civil War to the Great Depression; and the second city, the Rustbelt exemplar of the period from around 1950 to 1990. The third city features a dramatically revitalized urban core, a shifting population mix that includes new immigrant streams, and a growing number of middle-class professionals working in new economy sectors. It is also a city utterly transformed by the top-to-bottom reconstruction of public housing developments and the ambitious provision of public works like Millennium Park. It is, according to Bennett, a work in progress spearheaded by Richard M. Daley, a self-consciously innovative mayor whose strategy of neighborhood revitalization and urban renewal is a prototype of city governance for the twenty-first century. The Third City ultimately contends that to understand Chicago under Daley’s charge is to understand what metropolitan life across North America may well look like in the coming decades.
Author : Paul Kleppner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780875805320
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Chicago Divided written by Paul Kleppner and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the background of the election in 1983 in which Harold Washington was elected Chicago's first black mayor.
Author : Christopher Chandler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781633181489
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (814 download)
Download or read book Harold Washington and the Civil Rights Legacy written by Christopher Chandler and published by . This book was released on 2014-08-04 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insider's account of the campaigns and administration of Mayor Harold Washington of Chicago.
Author : Paul Michael Green
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809388455
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (884 download)
Download or read book The Mayors written by Paul Michael Green and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pierre Clavel
Publisher : New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Harold Washington and the Neighborhoods written by Pierre Clavel and published by New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harold Washington's period as mayor of Chicago in 1983-1987 will be remarked as one of the high points of American city history. Not only was the the city's first black mayor, he put together the first successful rainbow coalition and introduced reforms that signaled the end of the Richard Daley machine. This book documents another, less-noted but equally important aspect of Washington's mayoralty: a progressive neighborhood and economic development agenda, pursued by a network of neighborhood-oriented organizers and professionals, which played a crucial role in legitimating the adminstration generally and institutionalizing major reforms. Neighborhood organizers found themselves in city government after Washington took office. In this book they discuss the roles they played, the experience of being on the inside, and the frustrations of government. Members of the administration pursued such policies as the reallocation of city investments from downtown to the outlying neighborhoods, the redefinition of city economic policy toward providing good jobs rather than developing real estate projects, use of community based organizations to implement city policy, and a committment to broad-based participation. At a time when national policy had withdrawn from urban affairs, such initiatives were remarkable. They also confounded mainstream academic and public opinion. Perhaps it was not impossible, as many claimed, to develop redistributive policies, explore public ownership, address racial discrimination. It is important to examine Harold Washington's policies for what they set out to accomplish and for what they showed about the potential for redistributive policies in American cities.
Author : Keith Koeneman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226449475
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)
Download or read book First Son written by Keith Koeneman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the life of former Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley, making use of access to key players in his administration, as well as to Chicago's business and cultural leaders, to chronicle his political and personal evolution.
